Ford Nick Aaron (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Black soft cover, black lettering on yellow spine, solid. FER.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Literature, Criticism, Interpretation, Youth, African Americans) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light rubbing and a small sticker shadow. "Withdrawn" stamp on the first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1968 reprint. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This scarce academic journal devoted to racial issues includes an article on "Four Popular Negro Novelists" (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Frank Yerby and Willard Motley) by Nick Aaron Ford. Unmarked copy, light outer wear and toning. Not Signed.

Paperback. pp.197-292, very good first edition literary journal, trade paperback in gray wraps printed red, spine toned and faded. Ford on Walt Whitman's Conception of Democracy, Robert A. Smith on Countee Cullen's poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint facsimile edition, originally published in 1936. Octavo. 108pp. Brown cloth titled in black. Near fine, this edition issued without dust jacket. Excerpts and summaries of 20 contemporary novels by African-Americans. Ford was a black journalist, critic, and scholar who at the time was teaching at St. Phillip's Junior College in San Antonio, Texas. He later served as chairman of the English Department at Morgan State for over 20 years.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. inscribed by author, otherwise no markings. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 108pp. Olive cloth gilt. Rubberstamp on front flyleaf, rear pastedown and one page of text ("Property of Fondation des Etats-Unis"), small ink number on front flyleaf and in lower margin of title page, moderate overall wear, a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. A study of "eighteen novels written by eleven Negroes from 1914 to [1936]." The author of this study is African-American. Matthews. "Black American Writers", p.141].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Octavo. 108pp. Light stains on the boards, else very good in a pervasively stained, fair only dust jacket. Excerpts and summaries of 20 contemporary novels by African-Americans. Ford was a black journalist, critic, and scholar who at the time was teaching at St. Phillip's Junior College in San Antonio, Texas. He later served as chairman of the English Department at Morgan State for over 20 years. Scarce in the jacket, even one in this mediocre condition.

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. Inscribed first edition of this anthology of short fiction from more than two dozen Black writers - signed by the Baltimore-based editor to a local educator. An anthology of stories originally published in the Baltimore newspaper, the AFRO-AMERICAN, inscribed by editor/contributor Ford to local African American junior high English teacher Reba Tasco. The book was subsequently owned (Tasco died in 1952 at just 46 years of age) by prominent Cecil County citizen Charles W. Caldwell. Caldwell served as principal of the Elkton Colored School (later George Washington Carver) beginning in 1929, a position he maintained until the school closed in 1964, and received the Elkton Citizen Of The Year Award in 1965. Contributors include: Carl Murphy, Ruth Johnson, Albert Monn, Mark Hyman, Martha Brown, C. Leigh Stevenson, Olive Stewart, Ollie Stewart, Howard Meschi, Simeon Booker Jr., Gilmore Spencer, Thomas C. Patterson, Edward Lawson, Roland T. Hamilton, Albert Monn, March Lacy, James H. Hill, Harry Winston, Ed Lacy, Arthur Propes, Rudolph Fisher, H.L. Faggett, Gene Davis, Edwina S. Dixon, John P. Moore, Douglass Hall, Frank Coggins, Ralph Matthews, as well as several contributions each from Hall and Faggett. As the editors were themselves teachers at Morgan State College, a scarce book with relevant provenance. 7.5'' x 5.25''. Original full black cloth with titles stamped in gold. Lacking the rare jacket. 308, [12, blank] pages. Inscribed by Ford in year of publication on front free endpaper: "To / Mrs. Reba H. Tasco / Sincerely / Nick Aaron Ford / Sept 19, 1950." Penciled ownership inscription of "Chas. W. Caldwell / Elkton, Md." to rear pastedown, with the additional annotation: "Purchased from the Tasco Estate." Some bowing to boards. Mild toning to endpapers. Else clean and sound. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by Carl Murphy, President of Afro-American Newspapers and Civil Rights leader. Near fine with the rear board a bit bowed and a touch of bumping at the corners. Inscribed by Murphy. A very uncommon title, an anthology of stories, taken from the pages of the *Afro-American* newspaper in Baltimore, founded by former enslaved Civil War veteran John H. Murphy Sr. in 1897. Contributors include Ford, Faggett, Rudolph Fisher, Ollie Stewart, Ruth Johnson and many others. Carl Murphy took over as editor of the *Afro-American* in 1922. He was very active in the local Black community and served as president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, who with the help of Thurgood Marshall, forced the University of Maryland to open its law school to black students.